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Re:Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct fr... by cpill on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:56PM (#39444439)
which modern intellectual supports Marx these days?
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Re:Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct fr... by giraffe_lady on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:05PM (#39444558)
I suspect they were just not clear about what they meant specifically. Distinct from political or economic marxism, dialectical materialism is a thoroughly mainstream technique in history and the philosophy of science and certainly other disciplines as well.
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